This cube was one of my UFO's (unfinished objects) of last years cube mania. This weekend I finished it by painting it some more, adding vintage ladies and adding some wise lessons. Now it's ready to be send to a friend who will be 40 soon. The fun thing is that it can be send flat in an envelope and it will junp into shape when she removes it from the envelope, a real surprise :-)

29 July 2007

Daar snapt natuurlijk niemand iets van: rood geruite bellen... Het is de titel van deze atc voor Linda, haar alias in de diverse forums is Redplaid3, vandaar.Tina kwam met het plan om Linda te gaan bedelven onder verjaardags atc's. De opdracht was om er in ieder geval een feesthoedje op te verwerken. Vandaag is haar verjaardag, ik hoop dat de atc er op tijd was.That title is unclear for most of you I guess. I used it to name Linda's birthday atc, her nickname is Redplaid3, so that clears it.Tina had the idea to shower Linda with atc's for her birthday. We had to make one with a party hat. Today is her birthday, I do hope this atc reached her in time.

Written in the 16th century by Adriaen Coenensz. He worked 3 year to finish this book. He described and draw all strange people, creatures, plants and countries he heard of in that fast expanding world. It's restaurated by The Royal Library and posted on the internet completely (!). Really worth to take a look.

Klik op de vis voor een kijkje in het 16de eeuwse visboek.Click on the fish for a look in the 16th century fishbook.

Melanie nominated me for the Rockin' Girl Blogger award started by Roberta Ferguson. Part of the deal is I have to nominate 5 other blogging girls. I don't want to leave anyone out, all blogs I read are by Rockin' girls *lol* Come to think of it, there's not one man on my blogroll *heeheehee* Ah well, consider yourself nominated when you read this. Congrats!

The bubble atc's need a fancy envelope to be send of and mail art happens to be Michelle Ward's Crusade N0.10 (click on the crusade button for her blog).I used a few infamous fish, I printed lots last month... A rather dull, with lemons, decorated paper, smooshed with loads of ink, some stamping and I used my simple envelope template to fold the envelope. I adjusted the template to a standard size envelope. The envelope is lined with yellow tissue paper, kind of posh *lol*

Klik op de envelop achterkant voor het patroon.Click on the envelope backside for the template.

I didn't realize there was nothing stamped on the Tar Soap atc in the previous post until I posted the link at WS... and one stamped image happens to be the minimal requirement... sorry... Lucky enough there was one of my bubble bg's left stamped (Clubstamp Fizz) with black and white acrylic paint. The coloured dots are acrylic paint too (Aud Design). The bubbles are hardly visible anymore.

Today I finished this card with some Shirley pictures and the cute Dover fish, which got a stamped number each .

14 July 2007

Afgelopen jaar heb ik voor het eerst acryl verf gebruikt. Dit is een van de collages die ik toen maakte. Ik heb nog steeds wat geverfde achtergrondjes over om af te maken *lol* De collage is 11x11 cm, geen idee waarom ik die maat heb genomen, waarschijnlijk lag er iets van dat formaat voor het grijpen.Last year I used acrylic paints for the very first time, this is one of the collages I made then. I have some painted backgrounds left from that first session to finish *lol* The collage measures 4.33 inch, don't ask why i choose that size, probably just because there was some cardboard this size in handreach.

13 July 2007

Als je eens verlegen zit om wat achtergrond structuur is dit een goede bron:This is a good source when you're in need for some background texture:Mayang's Free TexturesVorig jaar heb ik de trui en de taart op deze verjaardagskaart met behulp van enkele van de foto's gemaakt.Last year I made the sweater and the cake on this birthday card using some of the textures.

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